David Weinstein
Co-Founder at KayOS
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Weinstein is a founder and operator with six years of hands-on engineering experience and a decade-plus track record in analytics, growth, and strategic ops across startups and crypto. As Co-Founder of KayOS he’s building contextual infrastructure and custom agents for AI-native organizations, and previously served as Chief of Staff at NEAR Foundation where he led analytics and ecosystem communications. He combines product-minded bizops from roles at LinkedIn, Tilt (acquired), and On Deck with technical contributions to security-focused open-source projects like Netmaker, improving WireGuard-based networking and hardening backend components. An active advisor and early investor, he helps startups scale strategy, data, and operations while keeping a pragmatic engineering lens. Based in Stony Stratford, he blends deep analytical rigor with entrepreneurial instincts—an operator who still fixes bugs and security issues in open source repos.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics Finance, BA Economics Finance at Washington University in St. Louis
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (13)
error-handling10
go10
networking10
wireguard10
security10
database-management9
kubernetes-pods9
kubernetes9
api8
devsecops8
apidoc8
vpn7
cloud-computing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gravitl/netmaker
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:David primarily addressed bug fixes and code improvements within the Netmaker project, tackling issues related to database connections, nil pointer dereferencing, and error handling. They also contributed to the project's security posture by addressing vulnerabilities and improving code quality. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the API and access key management components and added enhancements to the netclient utilities.
automatesnetmakercnizero-trustvirtual-networking
tcp-direct/putxt
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
dead simple package to be used as a core component of a termbin style service. used on tcp.ac
Contributions:42 PRs, 61 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 10 months
ackcore-componenttcptcp-server
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